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Show HER TRAGIC BIG TOE. Big toes are usually small factors In most love affairs, but the one that belonged be-longed to Miss Adeline Welsh had a lurge part In shattering the romance of Robert Lucky, who lives In Kentucky, for his clumsiness, .which cost the young woman her toe, cost him her heart. ' And it cost her mother about t50 in settlement of a court case to which this tangled tale of woe about a heart and a toe. led. , It was all Lucky'a fault, declared the two women. His fault cost him dear, for one has only to see the girl to un- oerstana i.ii ms name Denes mm. onj Is tall and very good looking, scarcely 18 years old, and with all the fire and dash that Is generally, associated with a Blue Grass belle. When Iucky learned that his chances of winning the hand of Miss Welsh had vanished he demanded back the money he had paid-a surgeon to repair the damages Jie had inflicted upon her toot. Not only did he obtain judgment, but the. Marshal -attempted to levy upon up-on the piano at Mrs. Welsh's home, 61 West Thirty-sixth street, and was prevented pre-vented from carrying out his plan only by the. arrival of Mrs. Welsh's attorney. attor-ney. Testarday the case was reopened, and, after judgment was set aside, Mm. Welsh paid the doctor's bill, which Lucky paid originally, she says, over .'. - i hf r objections, and the incident Is con-bldered con-bldered closed. , Mrs. Welsh, who Is an artist cf some repute, cornea from WUHamstown, near Ixlngton. where her family has long been famed for the beauty of Its girls. She Is tall, statuesque, of the blonde type, and her daughters she has two-resemble two-resemble her greatly. The two girls for several years bad been attending school in Kentucky. Last summer Adeline waa visiting relatives In WlUamstown and was -ardently courted by Micky, who is a poet when not running the general store. One night while at a party Lucky brought the heel of his shoe down on Mist Welsh's toe. Now, the toe had long been a tender point with the I young woman and at the moment of contact she promptly fainted. She was taken home and Dr. Menefee. the village vil-lage surcron. feared that -blood poisoning poison-ing would set In. Lucky was distracted distract-ed and outdid' himself In providing for the patient's comfort. When she was able to walk he sent her the nicest pair of soft slippers he could And. but at her nxt dance she found greater pleasure pleas-ure In the partnership Of other men. This hurt Lucky, particularly as he had insisted on meeting the doctor's charges for the amputation of the toe, although Mrs. Welsh had written to have the bill tent to her. When she returned to New Tork he began tutt before Judge Tierney In the Bronx for the physician's bill, plus the cost of the slipper. New Tork Herald. . , , i . ' |